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Originally published in 1965 A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can stand beside Chaucer.
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This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290.
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The virgin martyr vitae in Ælfric's Old English Lives of Saints recount the stories of young women who renounce marriage and sex to devote... Læs mere
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In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason much rule man inn all things, including his natural instincts to love.
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This book is the first full-length study of the significant patterns of domestic imagery in late medieval religious writing in English and their broader cultural significance.
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Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth.
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Brings together for the first time the two late medieval English... Læs mere
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This selection of essays delivers an accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Fresh engagement... Læs mere
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A study of ancient Rome as a prominent topic in the works of Middle English poets. Discusses how each these poets conceives of ancient Rome and Romans, both pagan and Christian, and why it matters to their work. Includes the works of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate.
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This edition presents a collection of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, illuminators, and scribes. Most of the texts are published here for the first time, and many were previously unknown.
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Through new readings of canonical Middle English texts in relation to broader traditions and practices of the body and the senses, knowledge and ethics, this study offers an original contribution towards a history both of the human body and of medieval Christianity.
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Insular Books discusses literary texts written in Anglo-French, Middle English, Older Scots, and Middle Welsh. The particular... Læs mere